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Government’s Greatest Investigations: Congress, President, and the Search for Answers, 1945-2012

Paul C. Light

Examines and evaluates the 100 most significant investigations of policy failures, bureaucratic mistakes, and personal misconduct undertaken by the US federal government between 1945 and 2012.

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Pathways to Excellence: Achieving and Sustaining High Performing Organizations in the Nonprofit Sect

Paul C. Light

Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking…

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The True Size of Government

Paul C. Light

This book addresses a seemingly simple question: Just how many people really work for the federal government? Official counts show a relatively small total of 1.

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Government’s Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security

Paul C. Light

Explores the US federal government’s most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. Drawing on survey responses from 230…

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Making Nonprofits Work: a Report on the Tides of Nonprofit Managent Reform

Paul C. Light

The nonprofit sector has never been under greater pressure to prove itself. With missions expanding and funding never more competitive, the sector suffers from a general impression that it is…

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Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It

Paul C. Light

The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point…

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The New Public Service

Paul C. Light

According to Paul C. Light’s controversial new book, The New Public Service, this January’s 4.8 percent federal pay increase will do little to compensate for what potential employees think is…

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Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion of Accountability

Paul C. Light

This work describes the increase in management layers of the US government over the past 50 years and its paralyzing effect on reform efforts. The author shows how the thickening…

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Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability

Paul C. Light

Offers the first systematic evaluation of the offices of inspector general (OIGs) and examines the government-wide investment in the IG concept. Despite their increasingly prominent, often controversial, role in the…

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The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1995

Paul C. Light

Since 1945, the Congresses and Presidents of the United States have made many efforts to improve the performance of the federal government. This text examines the most important reform statutes…

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The Search for Social Entrepreneurship

Paul Charles Light

Research on social entrepreneurship is catching up to its growing potential. This book explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this phenomenon, and suggest directions…

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Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations That Innovate Naturally

Paul Charles Light

Written for nonprofit and public organizations, this work shows how to innovate successfully. The book is divided into four parts: organizational environment, internal bureaucracy, leadership, and management systems. The author…

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A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It

Paul C. Light

The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called the true test of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains…

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Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems

Paul C. Light

Strategies for long-term social impact This important new book illustrates how to create the social breakthroughs needed to solve urgent global threats such as poverty, disease, and hunger.

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The Government-Industrial Complex: The True Size of the Federal Government, 1984-2018

Paul C. Light (Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy, New York University)

The Government-Industrial Complex analyzes the federal government’s blended workforce of 9 million civil service, contract, and grant employees. Noted Government reform expert Paul Light explores the history of this blended…

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Lights in the Sky

Paul C Vinci

Lights in the Sky: Are We Not Alone? features twelve extraordinary stories about UFO witnesses or abductees.

Are we alone? This age-old question has been debated since the beginning of…

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Recruiter Management in the Department of the Air Force

Avery Calkins, Samuel Absher, Paul Emslie, Catria Gadwah-Meaden, Ashley Gromis, Thomas Light, Anna C Morgan, Alice Nguyen, Nicolas M Robles, Stephanie Williamson

This report presents the results of analyses to determine characteristics of the most-productive recruiters, where the Department of the Air Force should add recruiter billets, and how factors affecting productivity…

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Government by the People, National Edition

David B Magleby (Brigham Young University Utah),Paul C Light (New York University)

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Government by the People National State and Local, Unbound (for Books a la Carte Plus)

David B Magleby (Brigham Young University Utah),Paul C Light (New York University)

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Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters

Provokes fresh approaches to the troubled relation of the Lukan Paul by re-configuring the figure and impact of Paul upon nascent Christianity, with the two leading questions as a driving…

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Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters

This collection provides challenging new perspectives on approaches to the figure of Paul in recent scholarship, as well as in the scholarship of previous generations, and refigures him by examining…

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Studies on Solution in Its Relation to Light Absorption, Conductivity, Viscosity, and Hydrolysis: A Report Upon a Number of Experimental Investigations Carried Out in the Laboratory of the Late Professor Henry C. Jones

Paul Bell Davis

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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